BenB

Oh my goodness have I never seen such helpful replies. Thankyou everyone. I will take them all on board. Just to say no we didn’t see the moons of Jupiter but, and feel free to laugh, but I didn’t think to look or where to look, I had no idea they were so far apart from Jupiter. I had such back ache by the time we got it in view it was a miracle really. And, yes it’s a travel scope but it has a 45 degree bend which helps. We’ll come along to the Reading meet-up and learn some more about eyepieces etc we can get. A chair…! That’s definitely something we were missing too

I bought a Celestron 80mm portable refractor telescope for my daughter and we were absolutely delighted to see Jupiter over Christmas. However, alignment is really difficult and the tripod is no good. The telescope has a standard sort of camera quick lock mount, is there a tripod you would recommend like an AZ3 which will work with my telescope ,,, and also a pair of binoculars. I can’t be sure from the website that the AZ3 works with a camera mount , it says it does but has no pictures. Also is there a way to improve the detail of what we can see, Jupiter looked like a white circle, it was amazing to see something that wasn’t a star tiny dot or the moon , but we couldn’t see any colour really. I would be happy to buy a bigger eye piece to make things more comfortable if it can be transferred to an upgraded scope later on. we live in Reading so should we go to a shop to talk it through ?